As we round the Christmas turn and head for the end of 2014, it was fitting that I found several copies of the Illinois Blue Book while doing attic archeology out on the farm over the holiday.Two of them turned out to be special.

Caroline Weber, 95, of Kewanee, died at 7:24 a.m. Friday, Dec. 26, 2014, at Kewanee Care. Cremation has been accorded and a graveside burial of her ashes will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, in Mt. Olivet Cemetrey, Kewanee. The Rev.

Eugene Robert VanWassenhove, 91, of Kewanee, died at 5:55 a.m. Friday, Dec. 26, 2014, at OSF St. Luke Medical Center in Kewanee.He was a member of Visitation Catholic Church, St. John Paul II Parish in Kewanee where a Mass of...